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  1. On 2/5/2024 at 10:57 PM, UTGrad98 said:

    Wife and I watched this a couple nights ago. We liked it. I have a new found respect for Lionel Ritchie after seeing it. Dude had quite a 24 hours that day they made it. 

    I stand by seeing him with the Commodores was one of the best concerts I have ever seen. 

  2. 13 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    apparently you never had the KaiserBob Experience...but to be fair it was hard to hear the crowd then due to lack thereof.

    I remember quite fondly just walking up and getting a front row ticket. There were so few people there that the players and refs could actually hear what you were yelling at them. Good times. 

  3. 1 hour ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    Terry isnt the worst coach, but damn does he have very little talent to work with or what

    Ok, so maybe he's not the worst coach but he's in the bottom quarter.   Yeah, whomever could not put a talented team together after finishing in EE last year sure screwed Terry over. 

  4. I have had two kids get in.  They went to a large competitive public high school. It’s my suspicion that admissions has a preference for these schools. 
    At least when they got in, UT gave applicants two scores. One, being scholalastic (test score, GPA, class rank) and the other being holistic (essay, resume, references etc). 

    These are some things I learned:

    Get someone to help the kid with their essays. If nothing else it keeps them on task so it’s not all crammed in and rushed. It should be a process and written over time which allows for further thought and just a better overall presentation.  
     

    Get some work experience in the field that you are applying for a major in. Does not have to be a 9-5 job. Maybe it was just an unpaid internship during the summer. Or, ask someone in the field if they can shadow them for a couple of weeks and call it an internship. They seem to like kids who show some interest in their field by actually going out and learning something about it. 
     

    My kids actually started a small business selling some things that they were making. Had them in some stores locally.  Not a huge deal but it did make their resume tie into their proposed major. 
     

    Encourage your kid to try for a leadership position in any student group they are in.  
     

    You should also prepare them for people that they know who appear to be less qualified academically to get in. It really all comes down to how competitive their major is.  Comparing the average stats needed to get into business vs social work is really apples vs oranges. 
     

    Letters of recommendation are worthless unless they come from a teacher who has greater than normal insight into the student and can offer some unique perspective.  

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  5. 1 hour ago, Vito Andolini said:

    I remember back in the early days of the internet, innocently clicking away and seeing horrific images of a guy getting his armed pulled off in a tug of war match, shotgun victims, things that were prolapsed that shouldn’t be prolapsed, girls in tubs (not the good kind), Pickle Incidents, etc. 

    None of it was as bad as the last couple days on this fucking thread.

    As I recall, Rotton.com was the first website I ever saw.  

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  6. On 11/6/2023 at 10:38 AM, yoladu said:

    Anyone have thoughts on families who live in Austin and have/had kids who attend UT, especially as an 18 y.o. Freshman.

    I want my kid to make friends, have a typical college experience, and gain more independence, so you know, typically that would be dorms and a meal plan ($$$$),

    but then again, they have a room/food at our home and a 15min bike ride to campus - could save a shitload of money.

     

    Any opinions? What am i saying, it's Surly, of course there will be opinions.

     

    I let my kids live in West Campus. They are graduating in May. Our house is 20 min from campus. It was better for them that they were independent and not living at home. 
    Quite frankly, I didn’t want to take away the whole college experience by making them live at home. It would have made it far less enjoyable for them. 

  7. 2 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

    Remember those chicks you went to rock concerts with in the 80s? They all got married, had kids, half of them divorced, and they’re all margarita moms with leopard stretch pants.

    Ground zero is his bar in Nashville. Nothing but divorce parties for the 50+ older crowd who NEED to hear a cover band playing Journey.

     

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  8. 10 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    FG%, 3point%, AdjO, offensive rebound % and offensive efficiency all currently rank better than last years team. 

    So what?  If you are really going to make the suggestion that this is better than I can’t argue with delusion. 

  9. Just now, SL Xpress said:

     

    There is no assistant hire that's going to fix this program. And by fix, I mean put it in a place where it's competing for national championships. I don't actually think we'll be competing for Sweet 16s, and that should be the minimum. 

    That said, I thought Terry was about to completely lose the team. He didn't. That speaks well of him, even if he's still not good enough to be the long term coach at Texas, IMO. 

    I’m not disagreeing but Haith is responsible for the offense which I think is just shit-tastic. 

  10. 3 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

    Since I feel compelled to shit all over Rodney Terry when we lose games I don't think we should, I'd like to say that he's not absent leadership skills. It doesn't make me want him to be our long term coach any more than I do - which is not at all - but I honestly thought this team was done for after losing 3 out of 4 to Tech, WVA, and UCF. That UCF game in particular just felt like a stick a fork in them kind of game.

    I hate the way we play. I hate our defense. I hate our lack of continuity or overall vision. But I'll tell you what. Beating Baylor the way we did, taking out OU in Norman, and now going toe to toe against one of the most relentless effort programs in college basketball at least makes me feel like the team buys into Rodney Terry. I appreciate that. Doesn't make me a fan, but I at least admire the effort from the guy and the effort he's bringing out in these players. 

    Fair take. Effort was good tonight. But there were several times coming out of time outs at end of regulation and especially near the end of overtime that it looked like we had absolutely no plan on the offensive possession.  In light of the effort by the players it was just maddening.  I don’t underestimate Haith being one of the issues with this team. 

  11. 7 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Here's what I think is going on with Trump.  When confronted with a new factual or legal situation, I think he looks at it pretty much like anyone else in terms of this is good for me or this is bad for me.

    As things turn bad for him in an objective way, his genius/madness is the ability to turn that negative into a positive by his relentless flood of bullshit.  At the outset, I think he knows it's bullshit, too.

    Where it starts to get weird is that he, like his followers, begins to believe the bullshit.  And probably also that things that are actually bad for him are maybe actually good for him.

    The thing is, the stuff that's happening to him now is worse than anything that's happened to him to date.  He can't escape the possibility of conviction and jail time, or liquidation of his NY entities.  In his prior legal entanglements, in the end it was always just money, and, no matter how stiff the judgment, thought he could negotiate and settle for less and then brag about it if anyone questioned him.  Not so much now.

    I'm guessing the stress of it is cooking his brain and helps account for his apparently accelerating dementia.

    Pretty good explanation of it. He grew up I think in the Unitarian Church with all that power of positive thinking crap that he just takes to the extreme. 
    What I don’t understand is how his flock thinks of him as a strong man when he is constantly portraying himself as a victim of others who are logically stronger and more powerful than him.  Have you ever seen a public figure who is more victimized than him according to his own response to every situation?  Everything is always “unfair”. 

  12. 14 hours ago, MotownHorn said:

    Brock's old man YMCA tricks don't work as well anymore because opponents and refs have figured him out. He gets called for a ton of shit that he didn't used to get called for. He used to get away with all the little pushes and shit that BYU got away with today. Now he gets called for all that. That's him developing a reputation and the refs responding, which is fully independent of who the coach is.

    Plus his shot is just off and he shouldn't be taking 6 3s in a game until he gets that fixed. RT letting him shoot last year was actually a smart coaching move. The problem is RT is still letting him shoot despite his shot sucking this year. But RT isn't shooting the shots for him. Again, his shot going cold is fully independent of who the coach is.

    If you said "Weaver should have gotten more of those minutes today" I'd agree. "Brock is a worse player due to RT" is just fucking idiotic. He's simply getting called for more and shooting worse. Which are independent of the coach.

    I say if his shot is off that’s up to the coaches to help work that out. If he is getting called for cheap fouls, maybe the coaches should work with him on it.  Every time he gets called for one he looks shocked. We have this thing called video tape and teaching.  Isn’t one of the jobs of a coach to teach, develop and correct mistakes?  I see plenty of instances of players changing their game or correcting things at the direction of coaching staff. 
    Look, I get that you have some affinity for RT and want to give him three or four years to figure things out. That’s cool. But, some of us are of a different opinion. I’m not trying to change yours. You aren’t going to change mine. 
    The thing is that I really enjoy Texas basketball and I have since 1986. 
    I’m old and don’t have the patience of Jobe anymore.  When Sark went 5-7 I knew that his team had no depth, no size on the lines etc.  I could at least see what he was trying to do and that he did not have the pieces to do it.  It was obviously going to take him a few recruiting cycles to get the players he needed. 
    Here, I don’t share the same optimism. 

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  13. 27 minutes ago, Foggy Notion said:

    A friend of mine and former band mate owns one of these original Schecter PT’s from the 80s. Bought it from Zach Blair the guitarist from Rise Against back in the late 90s when he was in Hagfish. That Tele is about as rock and roll as it gets. Just a killer guitar that plays like butter. 

    Schecter Saturn. Most of the production ones were made in Dallas with the Fender style headstock. I still haven’t seen one in the wild but I hope to buy one at some point. 

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  14. On 1/14/2024 at 9:50 AM, atomheartbevo said:

    Abbott would frame that and hang it in his office as proof that the librools hate him.  He’s probably sent a copy to Trump campaign HQ.   

    Someone should ask around about why Hot Wheels stopped sending busses to Portland. 

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